Rex Stout Quotes
The trouble with an alarm clock is that what seems sensible when you set it seems absurd when it goes off
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I've always performed. I've done plays at home.
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I don't think I am evangelical in my work.
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In terms of Rogers, I can't comment on how other fighters in the UFC would fare with Brett Rogers because that's just speculation.
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I always try to make films in such a way that it's hard to imagine how they came to be, or where they came from.
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There is no handbook about how a career is going to go.
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You hit 41 and you don't burn calories like you used to.
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Of course there is really vile anti-Semitism in Wagner's writings, but I can't accept the idea that characters like Beckmesser and Alberich are Jewish stereotypes in disguise. Would Beckmesser be a court councillor if he was meant to be a Jewish stereotype? No Jew could occupy such a role.
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My grandmother is the person who inspires me the most.
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Every single day, everywhere we went, people were coming up to me and Boyd repeatedly and saying, 'We're life-long Democrats, but we're voting for you. We've never voted for a Republican in our life.'
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If you think something is impossible, then it certainly is... for you.
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Casual games are a great way to spend time when you get bored. It's hard to keep people off all their little games.
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We were postwar middle-class white kids living in the slipstream of the greatest per-capita rise in income in the history of Western civilization; we were 'teen-agers' - a term, coined in 1941, that was in common usage a decade later - a new, recognizable franchise. We had money, mobility, and problems all our own.
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Picture by picture, these criminals are being identified and arrested, and we will not let any phony concerns about human rights get in the way of the publication of these pictures and the arrest of these individuals.
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A wonderful story collection set between one place and another and shaped by a fearless sense of comedy.
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I'm embracing many different things, but it's all feel-good.
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Myrnin was silent for a beat, and then he said, "Bob would be very disappointed in you.
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Now could you please ask these idiots to stop pointing their bullets at me? It's terribly wasteful.
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Even though my shoes are different from Ferragamo's aesthetic, which is more classic, I learned the importance of fit and quality. We were making shoes like they used to, by hand, and I carried that with me.
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Art does not have to be dull, to be effective; the artist does not have to be a bore, to be real.
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I have taxidermy pets that are very close to me. I have a little lizard with a head that comes on and off that I call Nicolas Cage because his face is long. And I have a big diamondback rattlesnake called Rufus, and I have some rats in jars and stuff.
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The expectation was I would get married and become a mother and settle down. We didn't have any role models. We saw teachers and doctors and nurses, but I'm not a teacher, and there was no possibility of being a doctor or a nurse. I had to work and find my own way.
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The trouble with an alarm clock is that what seems sensible when you set it seems absurd when it goes off
